Axle Health: Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software to help home healthcare and hospice providers improve their clinician productivity. Backed by Y Combinator and Pear VC.
About the role
Rapid design iteration: Translate product requirements and user feedback into wireframes, flows, and high-fidelity designs quickly, treating shipping and learning as the cycle rather than a long runway to perfection before handoff Cross-functional partnership: Work as a daily collaborator alongside product managers and engineers, moving at the speed of the development cycle and helping the team make fast, well-informed design decisions without process bottlenecks Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of professional UX design experience - portfolio must demonstrate end-to-end ownership from problem framing through shipped product, including how work evolved based on user and engineering feedback, not just polished final screens
- Advanced Figma proficiency - wireframing, prototyping, and engineering handoff at speed, with the ability to move quickly without sacrificing clarity or accuracy in specs
- Previous startup experience - has designed in an early-stage or high-growth environment where timelines are compressed, process is lightweight, and the ability to move fast and adapt is more important than following a rigid design methodology
- Workflow product experience : has designed workflow-heavy B2B tools that people use all day to get their jobs done (scheduling, operations, logistics, or similar)
- Proven cross-functional collaboration - direct track record of working alongside PMs and engineers as a daily partner, not a downstream deliverable maker
- User research fluency - hands-on experience with interviews, usability tests, and feedback synthesis, with the ability to extract actionable design direction quickly rather than through lengthy standalone research cycles
More about this role
Axle Health builds AI scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers to deliver exceptional, personalized care right where patients feel most comfortable—at home.
Some of the biggest providers in the country use our software (like Cityblock Health and U Penn Health System) to improve the utilization of their field teams by 17%+, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.
Our platform includes proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, a mobile app for field staff, an operations dashboard for office teams, engagement and booking tools for patients, and a wide range of integrations and external APIs for modular access.
We’re a team of top-tier engineers and operators, backed by $14m from top investors such as Y Combinator, Pear VC, and F-Prime, applying our intellect and logistics experience to upend how home healthcare is delivered.
Axle Health is building the operating system for home-based care, helping healthcare organizations schedule, route, and manage their clinical workforce more effectively. As our Senior User Experience Designer, you'll be the design function's engine on the product team, reporting...
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